FRITZ!Box Tools

Custom component for Home Assistant to control your FRITZ!Box

Features:

• Switch between device profiles ("Zugangsprofile") for devices in your network
• Turn on/off call deflections ("Rufumleitung")
• Manage port forwardings for your Home Assistant device
• Turn on/off wifi
• Turn on/off guest wifi
• Reconnect your FRITZ!Box / get new IP from provider
• Sensor for internet connectivity (with external IP and uptime attributes)

Installation

Install via HACS

The custom component is available via HACS

Manual Install

If you want to install the custom commponent manually, add the folder fritzbox_tools/ to YOUR_CONFIG_DIR/custom_components/.

If you're running on a manual HA install on eg. Debian or your own Docker setup, make sure to install the system requirements for fritzconnection (the library which is used by this component):

• sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev

Configuration

As Integration (recommended):

Go to the Integrations pane on your Home Assistant instance.

Using configuration.yml (legacy):

fritzbox_tools:
  host: "192.168.178.1"  # required
  username: "home-assistant"  # required (create one at `System > FRITZ!Box Benutzer` on your router)
  password: "yourfritzboxpassword"  # required
  devices: # Optional. Needed if you want to control the profiles of your network devices.
    - "Helens-iPhone"
    - "Aarons-MacBook-Air"
    - "..."
  profile_on: "Standard"  # Optional. Use if the names of your "Zugangsprofile" are different as the defaults.
  profile_off: "Gesperrt"  # Optional.

Prepare your FRITZ!Box

If you want to be able to control settings of the FRITZ!Box (eg. toggle device profiles, (guest) wifi, port forwards, ...), you need to enable two settings in the FRITZ!Box UI Home > Network > Network Settings (Tab) as seen in the following screenshot:

Note that the option is only visible if you turn on the "advanced view" on your FRITZ!Box.

Port forwardings

It's possible to enable/disable port forwardings for the device which is running Home Assistant.

Requirements:

• On your FRITZ!Box, enable the setting Selbstständige Portfreigaben für dieses Gerät erlauben. for the device which runs HA (s. next screenshot)
• Only works if you have a dedicated IPv4 address (it won't work with DS-Lite)

The port forwards will be exposed as switches in your HA installation (search for port_forward in your entity page to find the IDs).

Note: Currently only port forwards for the device which is running HA are supported!

Device profiles**

You can switch between two device profiles ("Zugangsprofile") within Home Assistant for the devices within your network.

Requirements:

• Add the (FRITZ!Box) names of the devices you want to control to device_list.
• Optionally set profile_on and profile_off to the names of your profiles (default: "Standard" and "Gesperrt") in the configuration of fritzbox_tools

The device profiles will be exposed as switches in your HA installation (search for fritzbox_profile in your entity page to find the IDs). If the switch is toggled on, the profile you specified in profile_on is activated, if the switch is off, profile_off is activated.

Note: due to the underlying library, the update routine is not the fastest. This might result in warnings.

Exposed entities

• service.reconnect Reconnect to your ISP
• switch.fritzbox_wifi Turns on/off wifi
• switch.fritzbox_wifi_5ghz Turns on/off wifi (5GHz)
• switch.fritzbox_guest_wifi Turns on/off guest wifi
• binary_sensor.fritzbox_connectivity online/offline depending on your internet connection
• switch.fritzbox_portforward_[description of your forward] for each of your port forwards for your HA device
• switch.fritzbox_profile_[name of your device] for each device in your fritzbox network

Example Automations and Scripts

Script: Reconnect / get new IP

The following script can be used to easily add a reconnect button to your UI.

fritz_box_reconnect:
  alias: "Reconnect FRITZ!Box"
  sequence:
  - service: fritzbox_tools.reconnect

Automation: Reconnect / get new IP every night

automation:
- alias: "System: Reconnect FRITZ!Box"
  trigger:
    platform: time
    at: '05:00:00'
  action:
    - service: fritzbox_tools.reconnect

Automation: Phone notification with wifi credentials when guest wifi is created

The custom component registers a switch for controlling the guest wifi and a service for triggering a reconnect. I use the following automation to send the guest wifi password to my wife's and my phones whenever we turn on the guest wifi:

automation:
  - alias: "Guests Wifi Turned On -> Send Password To Phone
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: switch.fritzbox_guest_wifi
      to: 'on'
    action:
      - service: notify.pushbullet_max
        data:
          title: "Guest wifi is enabled"
          message: "Password: ..."

Automation: Open port 80 for the Let's Encrypt http challenge

If you're using the Let's Encrypt Addon you could create an automation for renewing your certificates automatically. However, the http challenge requires port 80 to be open on your router.

The following automation does three things:

• Open port 80 on the router (the port forward needs to be created manually first)
• Stop the NGINX proxy addon
• start the Let's Encrypt addon to perform the renew
• Close port 80
• Start NGINX addon again

automation:
  - alias: 'System: LetsEncrypt certificate renewal'
    trigger:
    - platform: time
      at: 05:00:00
    action:
    - service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.fritzbox_portforward_http_server
    - service: hassio.addon_stop
      data:
        addon: core_nginx_proxy
    - delay: 00:00:15
    - service: hassio.addon_restart
      data:
        addon: core_letsencrypt  
    - delay: 00:03:00
    - service: hassio.addon_start
      data:
        addon: core_nginx_proxy
    - service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.fritzbox_portforward_http_server

Sensor: External IP address of your router The IP addresses (v4 and v6) are available as attributes of the connectivity sensor that this component exposes. However, if you want to have a dedicated sensor for your external IP, you can create a template sensor like this:

sensors:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      external_ip:
        friendly_name: "External IP Address"
        entity_id: binary_sensor.fritzbox_connectivity  # only react on changes of the router connectivity sensor
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('binary_sensor.fritzbox_connectivity', 'external_ip') }}"
        icon_template: mdi:router-wireless

This will create you a sensor with the entity id sensor.external_ip.

Contributors

• @mammuth
• @AaronDavidSchneider
• @jo-me

Attributions

• This project is based on fritzconnection. Thanks @kbr for the hard work.